Dr Kieran Moore says key indicators such as hospital admissions and the COVID-19 sewage signal are falling. Public Health Ontario says COVID-19 case rates fell in 22 of Ontario’s 34 health facilities for the week ending July 30, with the positive rate falling slightly each week and hospital admissions falling to 306 compared to with 463 the previous week. There were 46 deaths from COVID-19 for the week ending July 30, compared to 75 the previous week. Moore says he expects the overall risk and health impact to continue to decline through August. He also says that a fall wave of COVID-19 may not be as bad as he would have predicted a few months ago, given that so many people have been infected with the Omicron variant, combined with protection from high immunization rates and the fact that new variant of concern has not yet appeared. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 5, 2022.
